Re: [PATCH] ui/cocoa: user friendly characters for release mouse

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 27/12/22 17:15, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> While mouse is grabbed, window title contains a hint for the user what
> keyboard keys to press to release the mouse. Make that hint text a bit
> more user friendly for a Mac user:
> 
>   - Replace "Ctrl" and "Alt" by appropriate symbols for those keyboard
>     keys typically displayed for them on a Mac (encode those symbols by
>     using UTF-8 characters).
> 
>   - Drop " + " in between the keys, as that's not common on macOS for
>     documenting keyboard shortcuts.
> 
>   - Convert lower case "g" to upper case "G", as that's common on macOS.
> 
>   - Add one additional space at start and end of key stroke set, to
>     visually separate the key strokes from the rest of the text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
> ---
>   ui/cocoa.m | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ui/cocoa.m b/ui/cocoa.m
> index e915c344a8..289a2b193e 100644
> --- a/ui/cocoa.m
> +++ b/ui/cocoa.m
> @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
>   
>   #define cgrect(nsrect) (*(CGRect *)&(nsrect))
>   
> +#define UC_CTRL_KEY "\xe2\x8c\x83"
> +#define UC_ALT_KEY "\xe2\x8c\xa5"
> +
>   typedef struct {
>       int width;
>       int height;
> @@ -1135,9 +1138,9 @@ - (void) grabMouse
>   
>       if (!isFullscreen) {
>           if (qemu_name)
> -            [normalWindow setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"QEMU %s - (Press ctrl + alt + g to release Mouse)", qemu_name]];
> +            [normalWindow setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"QEMU %s - (Press  " UC_CTRL_KEY " " UC_ALT_KEY " G  to release Mouse)", qemu_name]];

I was a bit confused by the control symbol at first and tough
I had to press '^'; thus I'm not sure keeping 'ctrl' wouldn't
be clearer. The UC_ALT_KEY symbol certainly is. Anyhow,

Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

>           else
> -            [normalWindow setTitle:@"QEMU - (Press ctrl + alt + g to release Mouse)"];
> +            [normalWindow setTitle:@"QEMU - (Press  " UC_CTRL_KEY " " UC_ALT_KEY " G  to release Mouse)"];
>       }
>       [self hideCursor];
>       CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition(isAbsoluteEnabled);